Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

If, as many people believe, there is a God, and that God made us in his own image, then of course we are distinct from nature, just as He is.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.

On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth.

It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.

All the religions of the world say God is the creator. If he is really the creator, then the only way to meet him will be to become a creator in some measure.

Man thinks, God directs.

Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.

Time is not eternal but was created by God at the beginning.

Did God create man, or did man create God? Either way, the decision needs to be reviewed.

I don't claim to know what it means to say that we are made in the image of God, but I profoundly and instinctively believe it and all that it implies.

God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.

I certainly believe that God did create the world, yeah, absolutely I believe that.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.

It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'

I've always been a religious guy, but not overly religious. I've always believed in God and Jesus. I pray.

I don't even really know what the big bang is, and so when people want to go through and say, 'Well, I believe that the universe started by God starting it,' that's fine by me.

Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.